Posts from February, 2010

Mozilla is aware of the claim of a zero-day in Firefox as posted here: http://secunia.com/advisories/38608/. We cannot confirm the report as we have received no details regarding the reported vulnerability, such as a proof-of-concept or steps to reproduce. We’ve attempted … Continue reading

When fixing any bug, there is a risk of introducing new bugs, which we call regressions. Regressions caused by security fixes can be especially problematic because shipping a buggy security update can erode user trust for future updates. Fortunately, we … Continue reading

Important Note: One of the malware results has been verified to be a false positive. Further details are available here: http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/02/09/update-on-the-amo-security-issue/ Original blog entry follows below. Two add-ons in the experimental section of addons.mozilla.org were found to be containing malware. … Continue reading